DeTomaso Mailing List: June 2000, Message #39

Paul,
I have Ross pistons and am happy with them. They will make pistons to any size.
What I did was have the machine shop bore the bare minimum to clean up the bores
and then told them what size pistons I needed. Since I started with an .030 over
block it took an .037 over piston once the bores were cleaned up. I bought these
pistons from Dan Nowack in southern California. He supposedly has a patent on
the light weight pistons for Fords. It took about 4 weeks to get them.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul & Cathy Rimov" <whtvnm@mind.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <detomaso@realbig.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 8:39 PM
Subject: Ross Pistons.


> OK finally got word from our local machine shop that the block I found for
> my Aussi headed build up is in great shape but when the block was
> disassembled and cleaned for storage the owner overly vigorously cleaned and
> honed the cylinders and so my dreams of using standard bore pistons is up in
> smoke, much to my disappointment and out lay of cash 0.030 it is. Any body
> familiar with ROSS flat top pistons?? They are about twice the price of the
> forged TRW's but are a whopping 106grams lighter 630grams Vs 524grams.  Does
> Wiesco have a 0.020 or 0.030 off the shelf flat top for our cleveland
> availalble I know they are 6 to 8 weeks out for custom pistons.
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul.
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